PrimeHoldings.com and Briza Technologies Acquire IT-Bibow, and Sign Letter of Intent for Product Development with Federal Univer
February 26 2004 - 9:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
PrimeHoldings.com and Briza Technologies Acquire IT-Bibow, and Sign
Letter of Intent for Product Development with Federal University of
Brazil SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
PrimeHoldings.com, Inc. , a diversified holding company with
early-mover initiatives in the telecommunications and wireless
auction space, and proprietary restaurant and hospitality
industries software, today announced that Briza Technologies, Inc.,
which is being acquired by TimeMarker, Inc., a wholly
ownedsubsidiary of PrimeHoldings.com, completed the acquisition of
IT-Bibow INFO, Ltd., a Brazilian information technology services
company. Briza Technologies is a Hillsborough, NJ based corporation
whose primary business is the designing, manufacturing and
marketing of wireless credit card payment solutions and Internet
security devices. "With IT-Bibow as a wholly owned subsidiary of
Briza Technologies, Briza is now commercially operational and ready
to do business in Brazil. Because IT-Bibow 's senior professional
and technical executives remain in their current positions, post
acquisition, Briza will be able finalize negotiations and sign
several significant revenue-generating agreements with strategic
partners in Brazil that we have been workingon for the past several
weeks. This will allow us to roll out Briza's and IT-Bibow's
proprietary products in Brazil expeditiously," said Thomas
Aliprandi, PrimeHoldings' CEO. "Briza's proprietary technology
easily lends itself to a myriad of consumer product and service
applications. That is why the Brazilian Government-owned Federal
University of Santa Catarina wants to join with Briza to develop
our products and apply them to these diverse and specific markets.
The University is a major technological institution with extensive
experience in information technology, systems and automation," said
Ivan Silva, Briza's President and CEO. "We signed a letter of
intent for this purpose and intend to have a fully executed joint
development agreement in place in March. This partnership will
assist us not only in the immediate application of our patent
pending technologies to a wider variety of products, services and
customers, but will also improve and expand Briza's range of
technology by initiating new information technology research
projects directed, documented and completed by several of the
University's hand picked masters and doctoral candidates," said
Silva. About PrimeHoldings.com PrimeHoldings.com is a
technology-oriented holding company that seeks to introduce and
bring to market new e-commerce applications and business solutions.
The Company is composed of subsidiary operations: TimeMarker, Inc.,
developer of scalable Internet exchange platform that uses wireless
devices to provide clients with an efficient means of selling time
perishable inventory; and UniQuest Communications, Inc., a provider
of enhanced local and long- distanced phone services. PrimeHoldings
is traded over-the-counter under the ticker symbol "PRIM". About
TimeMarker TimeMarker, Inc. is one of the first to market with a
scalable internet exchange platform utilizing two-way wireless
devices (e.g., pagers, PDA's, Web phones) to provide consumers and
service providers with an efficient, market based clearing
mechanism for location-sensitive, time-perishable goods and
services. TimeMarker's technology is applicable in any vertical
industry with perishable goods or services, high fixed costs,
excess capacity, and hundreds or thousands of service providers
spreadacross wide geographic regions include trucking, food
services, and fleet management. About Briza Technologies, Inc.
Briza Technologies, Inc. is a private corporation that creates and
manufactures wireless credit card payment solutions and Internet
security devices. Briza Technologies applies environmentally
friendly technologies, or, if not available, invents such
technologies, to solve real and practical problems in the credit
card billing and Internet securities industries. Its current,
patent pending, products, BTSMSEF500 (an encrypted SMS data capture
solution for credit card and other financial transactions) and
BT300 (an Internet security devise that protects a company's
computers against viruses, hackers, and online theft) are currently
marketed in South America. "Safe Harbor" Statement under the
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PrimeHoldings.com, Inc. CONTACT: Tom Aliprandi of
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